Share - Create a Customized MOTD for Debian

Introduction

MOTD is a term used in UNIX-like system. It stands for “Message of the Day”. Usually we encounter MOTD when login to a system locally or remotely through SSH.

Ubuntu has a pre-coded MOTD package, namely landscape-common. I firstly met it when using DigitalOcean’s machine. It’s quite smart in which I can get multiple useful reports from.

Debian, however, is lacking of a similar program currently. No longer. Thanks to Nick Charlton and Dustin Kirkland, now we can add a set of MOTD in Debian system. I personally added two additional features to it.

Let it show public IP address.

Make it colorful.

Here are how it looks like:

Usage

You can install it by using the following code:wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/haodong/hdility/master/installMOTD.sh - | sh